This is for Alison.
Ingredients
500 ml cake flour
10 ml baking powder
10 ml ground cinnamon
5 ml mixed spice
5 ml salt
4 eggs
125 ml butter
62,5 ml vegetable oil
375 ml cator sugar
25 ml water
5 ml vanilla essence
200 ml chopped pecan nuts
500 ml grated carrots
Method
1. Sift dry ingredients together
2. Whisk butter, oil, sugar and water together until light and creamy
3. Add well beaten eggs gradually, mix well.
4. Add essence and fold in dry ingredients.
5. Stir carrots and nuts in.
6. Bake in a ringtin or a loaftin at 180 degrees C for 35-45 min.
I make cupcakes with this. It will make 30 cupcakes. (bake for 12 minutes)
Icing
125 g butter
500 g icing sugar
2-3 T plain smooth cottage cheese.
Cream together, when it gets too stiff, add a table spoon cottage cheese. Mix well. Add cottage cheese until the icing has the right consistency to spread on the cake.
